• About the Guide
• Development Process
  • Energy Planning
  • Evaluating Options
  • Organizational Development
  • Project Development
• Assessing Energy Resources
• Energy Technology Basics
• Electricity Grid Basics
• Costs
• Project Implementation Issues
• Case Studies
• Glossary

The Development Process

The development process presented here can help you shape your tribe's energy future. It is not prescriptive. We cannot create or implement your future — this is for you and members of your tribe to accomplish. The development process is organized into four basic sections, and each section is designed to help you and your tribe understand the decisions necessary to move forward in securing your energy future.

To continue, select a step in the development process:

• Strategic energy planning: Where do you want to end up, and how can you get there?

• Evaluating options: Possible roads to the future.

• Organizational development: The vehicles of change.

• Project development: Where the rubber meets the road.